Siesta Key Bonjour Cafe building sold

An Osprey investor has bought the building housing Bonjour Cafe & Crepes for $1.35 million.

The buyer of the 7,826-square-foot restaurant at 5214 Ocean Blvd. was Ocean Blvd, an Osprey company managed by Christopher J. Brown, records show.

The seller was Kauffman Family Partnership 1 Ltd., a Sarasota company managed by Mark S. Kauffman. Kauffman had paid $465,700 for the building in May 1996.

The deal was Brown's second restaurant purchase in 12 months. In February, he paid $156,800 for a 2,527-square-foot drive-through restaurant at 106 N. Tamiami Trail in Osprey, records show.

In November, Brown bought a 24,336-square-foot office building and adjacent retail plaza in downtown Sarasota for $2.8 million. Companies managed by Brown bought the properties -- at 1718 and 1734 Main St. -- in an all-cash deal from MFC Company Inc., a subsidiary of Northern Trust Bank.

Brown has said he does not plan to build anything in place of the buildings, which are 63 percent occupied, for the foreseeable future.

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